The Glass Menagerie

By Tennessee Williams

Directed by Joan Brooks

This semi-autobiographical account of Tennessee Williams' early days in 1930s St. Louis is a heartbreaking yet often funny "memory play" told from the perspective of Tom Wingfield. The Glass Menagerie is the story of a family desperate to break free of the burdens of their past and their present. Each escapes into their own personal "glass menagerie" as a means of eluding the pain of their own - and each other's - existence.